I
think that all human systems require continuous renewal.
They rigidify. They get stuff in their joints. They forget what they cared
about. The
forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having
things
the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly
happy past. But we've got to move on.

John W. Gardiner

Just because everything is different doesn’t
mean anything has changed.

Surrendering to change is always a leap of
faith. For something new to enter
your life, you have to let go of the past and join your immediate
experience right now. The key is less in what you do than how connected you are
in yourself as you do it. In life there is no predetermined path you should or have to walk;
you lay down
the path by how you take each step. This is one of life's
greatest truths.

Richard Moss

We need changes from the duties and the cares of
our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living.We need occasionally to be away
from our friends, our relatives, from the members of our immediate
households. Such changes are good for us; they are good for them.We appreciate them better,
they us, when we are away from them for a period, or they us.

Many
people look upon change with dread and foreboding.
But for those on the spiritual path—for those who believe in God
and the power of prayer—change is a fuller expression of life.
When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a
change,
rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has
closed
on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened
on new and more interesting things.

In spite of
illness,
in spite even of the
archenemy sorrow,
one can remain alive
long past the usual
date of disintegration
if one is unafraid
of change, insatiable in
intellectual
curiosity,
interested in big things,
and happy in small ways.

Edith
Wharton

Why
should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place
without it?
What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal Nature?
Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change?
Can you eat, without the food undergoing a change? And can
anything
useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to
change
is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal Nature?

Consistency
is contrary to nature, contrary to life.
The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous
Huxley

It’s
been said that one reason people eventually stop growing and
learning
is they become less willing to risk failure by trying new ideas or
experiences.
Change can be difficult and uncomfortable.But if our ambitions are only
to avoid the discomforts of life, we could soon find we have very
little life at all.God wants us to have the most joyful, fulfilling life
possible, and sometimes
that requires stepping out into the unknown.Is there a new experience or idea
you’ve been hesitant to pursue?You’ll never know until you try.

unattributed

If
you can’t change everything all at once, then at least work on
changing
something each day.Become aggressive in your battle with the ego.
You probably don’t need all the things that it wants.You need hope,
discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity—these are
the important
things.Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone
will lead you to the next.But you will rarely see the whole journey
or all the answers at once.

Stuart Wilde

Changes
are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them
is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

We have a hunch that it is possible to live a
better, more balanced, and less stressful life,
but many of us firmly believe that we don’t have the time or
energy to make the necessary
changes, even though perhaps just one small change could
significantly reduce our stress levels.
Instead of striving for attainable incremental changes, we
sometimes complain as if our lives
are completely out of our hands!

Gary Egebert

Things don’t change.You change your way of looking, that’s all.

Carlos Castaneda

We
believe we can change things according to our wishes
because
that’s the only happy solution we can see.We don’t think of
what usually happens and what is also a
happy solution:things
don’t change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel
Proust

As
changes take place in my life, I continue to watch them truly work
out
for my good—if I can just wait on God to see me through.What makes all
the difference is trust—the understanding that God has a much
bigger plan
than mine even if I don’t understand it.I’m grateful, yet sorry, that I have
had to learn so many lessons by hindsight.

Kathy Troccoli

Just
when summer gets perfect—fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes,
crushingly full
and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free
weekends—it
ends.Life is like that too. Just when we get it right, it
starts to change.The job gets easy and we know just how to do it,
and
they tell us we’re retired.The children grow up and get reasonable
and they leave
home,
just when it’s nice to have them around . . . . That’s
life on
the edge of autumn. And that’s beautiful—if we have the humility for it.

In our instinctive attachments, our fear of
change, and our wish for certainty
and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is
our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity.
Without impermanence,
there is no process. The nature of life is change. All
hope is based on process.

"Sweep
me up and send me where you please." For there I will
retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and
act
in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough
reason
for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become
depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover
any reasons for this?

Live
for today but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate
the future
and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in
every event, every circumstance, every unpleasant situation
in which you may find yourself.

Don't
ever believe that you are going to be peaceful--life is not like
that.
When you are changing all the time, you've got to continue to keep
adjusting
to change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing
new
obstacles. That's the joy of living. And once you are
involved in the process
of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed!
You're gone! But what
a fantastic journey! Every day is new. Every flower is
new. Every face is new.
Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life.
Stop seeing it as a drag!

Change
and growth take place when a person has
risked him or herself and dares to become involved
with experimenting with his or her own life.

Herbert Otto

What
people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those
things that are essential for their survival.They need to convert facts
into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision.They need
to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

It came to me
that reform should begin at home,
and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Will Durant

Very seldom will people give up on
themselves. They continue to have hope
because they know they have the potential for change. They
try again--not
just to exist, but to bring about those changes in themselves that
will make
their lives worth living. Yet people are very quick to give
up on friends,
and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to
either walk
away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes
character to stay
in one place and be happy there.

Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

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It
seems necessary to completely shed the
old skin before
the
new, brighter, stronger,
more beautiful one can emerge. . . .
I
never thought
I'd be getting a life lesson from a snake.

Julie
Ridge

Change is very hard, whether it's an individual
desire or a culture-wide need.
We prefer the familiar, the known, and we give it value because of
that.
We avoid change. We deny what we know in our
bones. We block
experiences, we ignore intuition, we pass by insight, we avoid
transformation.
We hold on, afraid to change a pattern even when we are in pain.
When you feel conflict, pain, tension, fear, or
confusion, this is a change
trying to happen. Don't avoid it or withdraw. Don't
turn to busyness or
denial. Lean into the feeling, work on the change, take the
risk. It will give
you the fullness you seek.

When
our lives can no longer provide us with the growth we
desire and change must take place, we may need to leave
safety and familiarity behind and journey into unknown
territory. . . . Even though conditions may not be
pleasant, we sometimes make an effort to tolerate the
increasing discomfort because we're afraid of the
unknown. But if your ship is tied up at the dock, it
doesn't matter how you turn the rudder--that ship isn't
going anywhere!

Many times unpleasant conditions in our lives tell us that
we are ready to move on and experience new areas of our
potential. While our fear of the unknown might
temporarily increase our tolerance of an uncomfortable
situation, life's circumstances may likely get thorny
enough that we'll be coaxed into moving on. We can
trust life and move ahead into new experiences with
confidence because, in a wonderful way, we live in a
friendly universe--a universe designed to support us and
our activities.

We
are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your
brothers,
the school, the teachers--but never blame yourself. It's
never your fault.
But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change,
you're the one who has got to change.